(October 30, 2014 at 3:07 pm)Heywood Wrote: Humans have lots of experience with death and are in a very good position to say, "Well there's the problem....this person has an extra hole in their head....since we have seen putting extra whole in people's head often kills them....we can conclude the putting of an extra whole in the decendents head probably is what killed him/her".
We simply have no experience with lineages of life coming into existence via some natural process.....none....zippo.
Your analogy doesn't follow.
We also don't have any experience observing gods poofing things into existence.
The analogy, although not perfect, is suitable. In fact, your example better illustrates the technique of using existing experience and knowledge to provide an explanation for events that weren't directly witnessed. Invoking God explains nothing and raises even more questions.
